¡Sarah!

I am sick for like the third time this month, what is this this is ridiculous. :| And it's an actual unpleasant sort of sick, too, not just "wahaha I lost my voice!"

Book:
24. Return to Titanic, Robert D. Ballard with Michael Sweeney
Every so often I spend an afternoon reading about the Titanic, don't ask me why 'cause I don't know, and that is how I found out about this book. Robert D. Ballard was among those who first discovered the Titanic's current location, and this book covers his 2004 return to the site. To be honest, I'm not really surprised to see it only has three stars on Amazon.com. I thought the book would be more about the ship and what's been happening to it at the bottom of the ocean, and there was some of that of course, but there was also a lot of rehashing of info that everyone already knows, and a bunch of boring passages about the equipment they used to explore the ship, and there were definitely not enough pictures, especially since Ballard spends a large chunk of the book arguing for the need to preserve the ship and show it to people not through stolen artifacts in museums but through other, less intrusive methods.

Also, this book made me feel really guilty for enjoying that travelling Titanic museum exhibit as much as I did. :|

Movies, etc.:
53. Shoujo Kakumei Utena, 1997
Oh my god, I finished watching this anime like two weeks ago and I still have no idea what to say about it. It's really interesting and really elegantly animated, and while I agree with the reviewers who've said it could've been about ten episodes shorter, overall I did enjoy watching it. I think my main problem with it was that I felt so let down by the ending. I'd heard multiple times that the ending was supposed to be amazing, so maybe I just built it up too much. But I didn't feel like I was watching the grand conclusion to the series, I felt like I was watching just a regular episode, complete with a whole bunch of stuff that I didn't understand. :| Ugh, even after reading a whole bunch of fan interpretations of this series, there's still so much that I don't understand, and so yeah. I'm really not sure what to say about this one.

54. Watchmen, 2009
athena_crikey and the_wykydtron made me watch this, although they were also kind enough to tell me when to shield my eyes. haha, I don't know, I just don't like watching violence! I remember once when I was talking about how I thought V For Vendetta was a really violent movie, and all of my friends were like, "Wut." So yeah. x) Anyway anyway, I didn't hate this movie like I expected to, and it definitely takes place in a really interesting world. I liked Rorschach's little speech about how he couldn't ignore the darker deeds of humanity, but overall I'm kind of confused as to why fandom seems to love him so much. Also, this is a little random but: I think it was when we were watching 300 that the_wykydtron pointed out how in Hollywood sex scenes, the focus is always on the woman's face. OMG SO TRUE WITH THIS MOVIE. HELLO MALE GAZE, HOW ARE YOU?

So I have no idea how to start this entry so let's just start it. Today has been a day off filled with appointments! xD; First I went to the wisdom teeth dentist guy, because two years after I was first recommended to him, I feel I have finally manned up enough to actually get the surgery done. :X Seeing my brother and almost all of my friends go through with it has definitely helped in this decision. Oh, and my fast food manager, whose wisdom teeth were causing her great pain, but she couldn't get them taken out for some reason I can't remember ... I'm still not THRILLED about the idea of having what still seems like kind of unnecessary surgery, but oh well. August 8th at 9am (oh god how am I going to get up that early xD; ), I shall say good-bye to my wisdom teeth once and for all! (I admit I am looking forward to a couple days of lazing about the house. xD; Plus that day is a Friday, which means I'll get the weekend off work, WOOT!! I am so sick of working weekends, haha. And only like a quarter of the summer's blockbusters have opened already ... the Batman weekend is going to be horrible ... ;_; )

Also, my wisdom teeth dentist guy makes me want to grow up to be a crazy old man. xDD haha I love him!

Then Mom and I went to the mall where I got Arby's, a new (pink and flowery!) pair of flip-flops (yes I am a classy dame; I like wearing flip-flops when I go for my walks in the cemetery, I don't really wear them anywhere else though), and a new DS game which I've never heard of before but it looks adorable, it's called Professor Layton and the Curious Village and I kind of bought it on a whim so I hope it's good! xD; Also the dude at HMV informed us that the only bookstore in the mall had closed! o_o Man I never bought anything there but that's still sad, isn't it? I probably wouldn't be so shocked by this except that I am really trying to get back into reading this summer (and I am succeeding, I daresay). Then I had my appointment with the optometrist (yes, in the MALL, it is a classy joint :d ). My eyes have not degraded as much as I had convinced myself they had, hahaha, so that makes me happy. I do have a new prescription, though. I'm keeping my frames (I heart them) but getting new lenses and also new sunglasses!! They'll be prescription, 100% UV protection, and also they are PINK!!! I've been trying to get outside more often, too, so I figured I'd better get them, despite the cost ... ^^; Well glasses are kind of expensive I guess but I think they're worth it. hahaha everyone at the optometrist's office was impressed I've been wearing the same glasses for four and a half years! Do they usually not last that long or something? I don't think I've been taking spectacularly good care of them or anything ... I definitely once walked into a pole and bent them all out of shape .... ^^;;;

And now I have no idea how to end this entry so let's just end it. :D Ahaha but I do love having appointments on Mondays ... that means that if it's horrible, afterwards I can come home and watch Jon and Kate Plus Eight and be happy again. xD!

Sarah: "Today I joined the Disney Movie Club! They sent me stickers!"
Brother: "Yeah, right. You made that club up yourself. Then you made those stickers. And died a little inside."

Aaaaahahaha, oh gosh, I really did die a little inside, I think. I felt very dirty filling out the form, because it was totally admitting that I buy enough Disney DVDs that, "obligation to buy" or not, this thing is easily going to save me money. :X Ah, I spend way too much money on DVDs, my mother tells me that's all I ever buy. xD But today I ordered three Disney sequels of varying quality all for just two dollars total, so who cares~~~~~~ XDDDDD

In completely other news, I went to the doctor today to get the wax washed out of my ears. ( cut for gross? )

What else ... I worked on my JaNo novel today and yesterday, which is really terrible of me because I should be working on the novel I want to have a first draft of by the end of the year. ^^; But I randomly started getting ideas for this one so whatever. This evening I went to betaraider's and saw 300 for the first time, but I think listening to six months of people praising it was bound to leave me disappointed. :p (Wow, it was only released in March?? I feel like it was released soooooooooo much longer ago!)

I feel like I am slacking re: studying but at the same time I feel like we're still so early in the school year and already I've done a lot. My classes so far are fine but I dunno, I sort of lost my drive in third year and I thought I might get it back but so far that's not the case. :( I mean, I like university, but I really don't care for all the work they shove into three months. And it makes me just want to not do any of it. Because I'm mature like that, haha. But whatever, so far so good, I have a Japanese literature class that is the MOST INTENSE CLASS I'VE EVER TAKEN. There's only five students and it's all Japanese all the time which means the other four get to listen to my aaaaaaaawful speaking. xDDD Why do I hate when people are all, "lol, this is my friend Sarah, lol, she's so totally fluent in Japanese"? BECAUSE I'M NOT. Feel free to ask any of these classmates if you don't believe me, hahaha, they're the ones who get to listen to me stumble through my answers to the hundreds of questions the prof asks every class. xD But I really like this prof, though! He is so friendly and happy and enthusiastic, and maybe it's horrible to say this but he kind of reminds me of Matthew from Matthew's Best Hit TV. Well, considering how awesome I think Matthew is, I guess that's not really a mean thing to say, and anyway this prof isn't quite as crazy as Matthew is ... yet. xDDD

AND BEFORE I FORGET! XD Here are two YouTube videos that are currently ruling my life:

After Today
A group of college kids got together and made a live action version of "After Today" from A Goofy Movie. WHICH IS AWESOME ENOUGH IN ITSELF, RIGHT??? xDDD But it is pretty amusing in other ways, too. XD XD And then I watched it so many times I had this song stuck in my head the entire next day. A little tiring! ^^;; I am actually really amused by all the love A Goofy Movie seems to get on YouTube, hahaha, because I remember when it was like the most neglected of Disney movies. xDDD There's a Hercules video done to "Stand Out" (omg I love that song) and there's even a PotC video done to "On the Open Road"!!! PRETTY AWESOME!!! XDDD

Why is the Rum Gone? Remix
I watched this expecting it to be like the I've Got a Jar of Dirt Remix, which I have never been able to listen to all the way through because it drives me insane. >_O;; So I am glad to report that this one is much more awesome and even my PotC-hating brother liked it so much that he spent the next day going around the house shouting, "That's not good enough!" xD (Hahaha, when we were watching it he was like, "It sounds like Will's getting angrier every time, but you know that's not true!" xD xD; ) So please watch it and love it and send me all the awesome (AWEsome?) PotC videos you find because I devour them like candy. :X

((Oh man that reminds me! My brother's (nick)name is Will and my favourite character in my favourite trilogy is named Will. Okay, whatever. But one of my brother's favourite movies is Requiem for a Dream and one of the main characters in that is named Sara!! Either we just have two way common names, or this is some bizarre sibling psychology at work. xDD ))

I found this in my YouTube viewing history, which I think means my brother must have watched it because I have no recollection of it -- Amadeus in Five Seconds. It's pretty brilliant, hahaha. Man, I haven't watched that movie in months ... I think I watched my favourite scenes one evening in December but I can't remember the last time I watched the whole thing. That movie is long! XD;;

Hahahaha, The Lion King in Five Seconds, that one is HARSH. XD hahahaha!!

In real life news, I just got back from the clinic and his basic advice was to wait it out and if it gets worse, come back.

OMG TO HECK WITH THIS ENTRY MY LUGGAGE IS HERE

Man, guess how much I wanna write this essay on pre-modern Japanese theatre. XD XD XD XD;;; SO distracted right now. I just changed some of my icons, haha, yay, that's how distracted I am. XD

I don't know how to write Japanese on a Mac so I copied and pasted the subject line of this entry from the dictionary, har har har. XD My life is an Ayaya song, hahaha. Actually, as much as I like it, "Tropical Koi Shiteru" really creeps me out. Remind me to tell you about it some time!

Last night I had a near death experience involving my toe. Don't remind me to tell you about that some time, I suspect it'd be a bit TMI. Really I'm just writing it here for if I have to remember it later. My mom was very encouraging ... I am a little bit worried about my messed up toenail and how it'll fare over the next week (it hasn't been hurting at all lately but that doesn't mean it doesn't hate me), but Mom was all, "Don't let it worry you, you're not going to die because of your toe, we'll get it fixed when you come back." Awwwwwww~~~~ <3 <3 <3

Then today I woke up feeling sick with NERVES and my dad was all, "You're nervous now but you won't be in forty-eight hours when you wake up drunk on the Mexican border." Haha what?

I got a haircut yesterday but it's too short and it's my own fault for not realizing how short it would be. :( Oh well oh well ...

athena_crikey, you never read this, but I am sad that I'm going to miss seeing you over Break. :( You should be like betaraider and come visit me this evening! For a mysterious visit, hahaha, I'm so curious why she wants to come over. XD

OKAY OKAY I have to write my essay why aren't you guys telling me to get off LiveJournal?? XD XD XD XD

( another stupid post in a line of stupid posts, this one loosely about productivity )

There, I hope that is an entry that does not betray how ANGSTY I have been feeling lately, although I guess in a way it kind of does ...